President Obama visits Saudi ruler’s farm
From CNN:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — President Obama, on the first leg of a Mideast trip, said Wednesday that he is confident the United States and Saudi Arabia can “make progress on a whole host of issues of mutual interest.”
President Obama meets with Saudi King Abdullah on Wednesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Obama said he was “struck by his wisdom and his graciousness. Obviously the United States and Saudi Arabia have a long history of friendship. We have a strategic relationship.”
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“And as I take this trip — and I will be visiting Cairo tomorrow, I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek his majesty’s counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues that we confront here in the Middle East,” he added.
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